favorite movie #92 - election edition: election

Favorite movies that have had an impact on me - #92 - Election (1999) - Reese Witherspoon is amazing as Tracy Flick, the indefatigable, unscrupulous, ever-achieving senior who is running for student body president. Matthew Broderick is her teacher Jim McAllister, who loathes her. This dark comedy never tries to make any of its characters likable and is all the better for it.

one of the advantages to being in a battleground state ...

... is that the Prez has been visiting a lot more often recently. The kid will be accompanying me to this event. A real-life civics lesson.

What is especially fun about this one is that there is seating for all. We both enjoyed attending last month's rally at the nearby convention center, but that event was standing-room-only for thousands of people. This venue, a tennis center, may fit the same amount of people, but it should be easier to see and hear the President with stadium seating. Last time the kid had trouble seeing over people's heads.

We'll be seeing President Obama exactly two weeks before Election Day (and the day after the last debate at nearby Boca Raton).